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A mother holds her newborn child at the Bunj hospital, Maban refugee camp, South Sudan during a visit by HRH Sarah Zeid of Jordan.

The NGO vessel Aquarius arrives in the port of Valetta, Malta, in August 2018.

Ambassador Jan Petersen, head of the referendum observation mission from the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, answering media questions outside a polling station in Skopje, 30 September 2018.

The Emergency Relief Coordinator (ERC) has finalised allocations totalling $80 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) for humanitarian response to some of the UN's least well-funded 2018 response plans across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The decision confirms provisional allocations the ERC made earlier in the year.

The “Non-Violence” (or “Knotted Gun”) sculpture by Swedish artist Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd on display at the UN Visitors’ Plaza.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés, President of the seventy-third session of the General Assembly, gavels to a close the General Assembly’s annual general debate.

Forced labour in Uzbekistan has always received more attention than that in neighbouring Turkmenistan. It’s time to stop Turkmenistan hiding in the shadows.

On 30 September 2018 in Indonesia, Nurul Istikhoroh (15) is evacuated by the Basarnas team at the Balaroa National Park in West Palu, Central Sulawesi, after almost 48 hours of being trapped in the rubble of their house and being submerged in water after the earthquake and tsunami that struck Sulawesi on September 28.

Few Macedonians turned out to vote in a referendum on whether to change the name of their country – a move that could pave the way for it to join NATO and the European Union.

Protecting women and girls through safe abortion.